Police officer Sgt Adam Webster told the court that police originally attended the wrong address but said it was only 'three or four minutes' away from that of Mr Boardman.

Andrew O'Byrne QC, defending, told the court Goddard was arrsted within around 24 minutes of police arriving at the scene, which was ‘quick’.

But Sgt Webster said: “That could be some people’s perception.”

PC Jenna Shepherd, who also attended the scene on the night of the murder, told the court how Goddard was the 'calmest witness she'd ever seen in that situation' and added that she thought his account of events was ‘rehearsed’.

Running through PC Shepherd’s statement, Mr Moulson said: “Goddard said he was in his property upstairs. He had heard Glenn’s voice shout: ‘Mick, Mick’.

“Goddard said he got dressed and made his way to Glenn’s property. The defendant said he knew the door would be open as Glenn never locked it, he never shut his windows and that he normally had a fan on.”

Mr Moulson said Goddard saw an unknown man by the bedside table who then tried to dive through the window but ‘slipped and slid on the window ledge’ before tumbling out of it.